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Springs of Life - India's Water Resources (Hardcover)
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Springs of Life - India's Water Resources (Hardcover)
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Springs of Life is a book about water in all its complexities. It
is an exhaustive account of water in India, and documents the
natural beauty of the water bodies, the ways in which communities
live and interact with water, particularly in hostile ecosystems,
the resilience of people living in water stressed regions and their
common sense solutions to local water problems. ""Springs of Life""
is a rare combination of an academic book with a coffee table
presentation, for the first time integrating academic rigor with
field reality and pictures from the ground (over 600 colored
photographs!). Without binding itself to any one discipline of
irrigation or water supply, the book looks at the entire spectrum
of water in the country. The research is substantiated by evidence
and stories from the field, with pictures taken by traveling more
than 25,000 kilometers by road across the length and breadth of the
country. ""Springs of Life"" is about India, but this is where
about one-sixth of the world's population lives, making it a vast
resource of experiences in dealing with issues related to water.
India is blessed with nearly all types of agro-climatic zones -
from the cold desert to the hot desert, from mountains that rise to
eight thousand meters, to a coastline of more than seven thousand
kilometers. India also has the place with the highest rainfall in
the world and the largest riverine island. India in a way is a
microcosm of the world in terms of the diversity of natural
resources and ecosystems.
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